Amazon is where most books live or die, and its rules reward authors who understand them. These posts cover Kindle Direct Publishing, rankings, reviews, and getting a book to perform inside the world’s largest bookstore.
Amazon & KDPReaders decide in a fraction of a second, scanning covers on Amazon or shelves in a store. Get yours wrong and you lose them before they read a word. Here is what actually makes a cover work, which formats you…
Amazon & KDPClients usually know they want a book and have barely thought about how it reaches readers, but that choice decides control, speed, money, and whether the book does its job. Three paths are worth weighing. Here is traditional, self-publishing, and…
Amazon & KDPThe platform you choose is not a small decision; it sets your distribution, your royalty rate, your formats, and how much control you keep. Pick wrong and you cap the book's reach before anyone reads a page. Here is what…
Amazon & KDPOnce a month someone asks me how to hit the New York Times list, and I tell them the truth they do not want to hear: it barely matters. The lists are corrupt and largely irrelevant to what a book…
Amazon & KDPPublishing the book is not the finish line, it is the starting line. A book sitting on Amazon doing nothing is a wasted asset. Here are 15 concrete ways my most successful clients put their books to work, and what…
Amazon & KDPThe moment you publish, your book is global, Amazon hits a dozen marketplaces, ebooks land instantly, print-on-demand ships worldwide, and yet most authors quietly cap their own reach with avoidable mistakes. Having ghostwritten for clients across six countries, I have…
Amazon & KDPMost authors picture readers in their own country and stop there, which is thinking far too small. An English book can reach every English-speaking market, and with translation, every market on earth, and the infrastructure has never been more accessible.…
Amazon & KDPMost book marketing advice comes from people who sell marketing courses, not people who have sold books. Build a list, run ads, get on BookBub: it sounds reasonable and skips the part that matters. After 113+ books, here is what…
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Amazon & KDPMost of my books sit at four and five stars, but every author eventually meets the brutal one-star takedown. The first one stings; it does not have to derail you. After 113+ books, here is how I read a bad…
AI vs Human GhostwritingAI can spit out a book-length manuscript in minutes, and the internet is full of people who wrote a book in a weekend with ChatGPT. The output exists; whether anyone will care is another matter. The machine predicts likely next…
Amazon & KDPDerek Sivers just wanted to sell his band's CD, labels ignored him, scouts never showed, so he built a bare website with a shopping cart to do it himself. That throwaway became CD Baby, sold years later for millions. Airbnb,…
Amazon & KDPMost books that fail do not fail because the writing is terrible. They fail because the author made avoidable mistakes in structure, characters, pacing, or marketing. Here are the most common problems, each paired with a book that got it…
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